It’s been 25 years since the Institute of Medicine’s To Err Is Human report exposed the alarming toll of medical errors in the United States. That moment finally pushed quality and safety into ...

Despite AI's potential, human hospital staff efforts are still key in significantly improving patient safety. Artificial intelligence applications may dominate health care discourse, but the low-tech ...

Boston, MA – It has been five years since the release of the Institute of Medicine's landmark report on medical errors, "To Err is Human." What progress has been made to improve patient safety since ...

We conducted a two-phase evaluation. First, we assessed LLMs (GPT o4-mini and Gemini 2.5 Pro) on 1,000 synthetic clinical hematology/oncology vignettes with ...

Evidence shows that inadequate consultation time and unclear clinical information contribute to roughly 25 to 30 percent of ...

The main drivers of diagnostic errors in 2023 were issues with processing medical tests, referrals and communication, according to the Emergency Care Research Institute. Nearly 7 in 10 errors occur ...

Last year, I faced a harrowing experience that would change my perspective on healthcare forever. What began as an emergency surgery to combat a flesh-eating bacteria quickly turned into a nightmare.

Reliability and Risk in AI-Assisted Medication Decision Systems,” the study examines how AI systems perform under failure conditions and what types of errors emerge in medication-related ...

Becker’s Hospital Review has named “50 Experts Leading the Field of Patient Safety,” which includes individuals at national organizations, universities and healthcare organizations working to improve ...